Example sentences of "she [vb -s] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She goes one better than last year . |
| 2 | It 's got these tight sleeves that look too short and the bottom bit is all bunched up so when she turns it all billows out . |
| 3 | I do n't think she 's all that keen on them , and sometimes she kicks them all out , if it 's getting late and she wants to go to bed . |
| 4 | She scribbles it all up . |
| 5 | And if , like us , you 've never heard of her , we should tell you that she plays his 14-year-old daughter in a romantic piece of ooh-la-la entitled My Father The Hero . |
| 6 | 4 She drives her left knee into his chest to immobilize him . |
| 7 | She drives me batty . |
| 8 | She drives me batty . |
| 9 | And she drives you insane ! |
| 10 | ‘ She drinks it all the time . ’ |
| 11 | There 's a quotation here from one of the ladies ' magazines at the time : ‘ woman was given to man to be his better angel , to dissuade him from vice , to stimulate him to virtue , to make home delightful and life joyous , in the exercise of these gentle and holy charities , she fulfils her high vocation ’ — pretty inspiring stuff ! |
| 12 | And no doubt she thinks me strange beyond belief I am too tall , not handsome by this world 's standards , and I do n't know how to pay the pretty compliments a young woman expects . |
| 13 | She thinks it all very romantic — she does not know what hard work being a servant is — and nor did I , for that matter . |
| 14 | She thinks your wonderful ! |
| 15 | The stereo cassette is an essential tool , with Queen blasting out at full volume while she produces her fine work . |
| 16 | In fact her resistance to the ‘ sense ’ of the question is due to the fact that she understands it first in the context of legal discourse : ‘ She had a brief glimpse of a mediaeval bureaucrat … issuing a proclamation : ‘ From 23.59 on the 16th April 1340 , dipthongisation will be optional in the County of Kent ’ ' ( 5 ) . |
| 17 | Apart from the deadlines created hy husbands ' and children 's needs , she imposes her own time pressures ; these follow from the way she organizes her work and the kind of standards she sets herself . |
| 18 | ‘ She 's only saving her money , ’ I sprang to Ellen 's defence , ‘ so she has something to live on while she writes her first novel . ’ |
| 19 | Lisa has written eleven songs — she writes her own melodies and lyrics — and three of these will be chosen as a follow-up to the video demo . |
| 20 | Then she dresses her lovely as well . |
| 21 | it is n't , it 's Bryony 's space suit , give her , otherwise she 'll be squeaking cos she wants her own , here 's yours James , you have your own , give that one to Bryony , here 's your space suit Bryony , you 'll need this if you 're going to the moon |
| 22 | ‘ She only wants you safe — ‘ She wants me safe from Jean . |
| 23 | She wants me dead , ’ she said slowly . |
| 24 | … she call us in to do 'er dirty work for her , build 'er up , she wants us out again 'cos she see that we 're gettin' education and we 're gettin' brainy , and we 're comin' into power so she wants us all out before we reach too high . |
| 25 | Mu mu my mum says that I 've got to show all receipts at the end of the year and if I have n't got any then she wants it all back , but she 's she can piss off as far that 's concerned ! |
| 26 | Oh yeah she wants it this month do n't she ? |
| 27 | Now that we 're talking to Anne and er she wants it pink . |
| 28 | Erm it 's tha then getting towards and she 's gone down and done the horses he sh he said it 's then getting to Harriet 's bed time so she baths her all sorts her out and he said well she does work hard , he said and by the end of that she she wo n't be able to do anything else ! |
| 29 | They are taken to the pond for a bath perhaps by one daughter-in-law , and she baths them all . |
| 30 | Her arms encircle him … and she holds him close |